2.Â Introduction

This section will summarize the purpose of this article and
better explain what is covered herein. The instructions
included in this article will benefit those using services
provided by colocation facilities not supporting FreeBSD.

As we have mentioned in the Background section, many of
the reputable server hosting companies provide some kind of
rescue system, which is booted from their
LAN and accessible over
SSH. They usually provide this
support in order to help their customers fix broken
operating systems. As this article will explain, it is
possible to install FreeBSD with the help of these rescue
systems.

The next section of this article will describe how to
configure, and build minimalistic FreeBSD on the local machine.
That version will eventually be running on the remote
machine from a ramdisk, which will allow us to install a
complete FreeBSD operating system from an
FTP mirror using the
sysinstall utility.

The rest of this article will describe the installation
procedure itself, as well as the configuration of the
ZFS file system.